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Dec 07 2024

Day 7 of #24DaysOfAI – Transform Your Teaching Content with Exemplary.ai

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day 7 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar! Today in #24DaysOfAi, we explore a tool that helps educators repurpose and transform existing video content with ease. Exemplary.ai is an Ai-driven platform which is great at helping to summarise lessons, generate engaging video clips, or provide captions in multiple languages.…

Dec 06 2024

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Day 6 of #24DaysOfAI – Supercharge Your Teaching with Brisk

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to day 6 of the 2024 Appvent calendar where today we will focus on a firm favourite of ours…Brisk. Brisk is a FREE Google Chrome extension that provides over 30 fab tools to help teachers save precious time when preparing lesson resources and marking student work. Educators have designed…

Dec 05 2024

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Day 5 of #24DaysOfAI – Riverside!

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AI, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day 5 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar! In today’s edition of #24DaysOfAi, we’re spotlighting a tool that gives educators a suite of fantastic tools to help create polished, professional content while addressing the unique challenges of workload, by making it super easy, fab quality and with some nifty…

Dec 03 2024

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Day 3 of Appvent: Rileybot for Engaging Younger Learners

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar, where we continue to explore the most innovative tools shaping the future of education. Appvent has always been about showcasing impactful EdTech solutions, and this year’s focus on #24DaysOfAi is already sparking excitement and inspiration. Today, we are thrilled to introduce…

Dec 02 2024

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Day 02 of #24DaysOfAI – Exploring the Potential of Olex.AI

By Mark Anderson AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to today’s edition of the #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar! If you’re searching for a way to transform how writing is assessed in classrooms, Olex.AI might just be the solution you’ve been waiting for. This AI-driven platform offers educators a powerful toolset to provide personalised, class-level assessment and feedback on student…

Dec 01 2024

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Introducing the 2024 Appvent Calendar and #24DaysOfAI

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Seven years ago, I had the idea, thinking how cool it would be, to have an advent calendar that revealed a helpful EdTech tool or platform each day throughout December in the run up to Christmas. And so the Appvent Calendar, sharing 24 days of EdTech magic, was born. This…

Oct 24 2024

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32 Ai Tools to Support Your Teaching and Their Learning

By Mark Anderson AI, Appvent, ChatGPT, EdTech, Free resource, Front page, Global Edtech No Comments

AI tools are becoming an essential part of modern education, offering helpful ways to reduce workload, enhance learning, streamline classroom tasks and support teaching and inclusion. To help share some of the most popular tools, I’ve created the infographic below with 32 Ai Tools to Support Your Teaching and Their Learning,…

Aug 14 2024

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From Hype to Reality: Navigating AI Integration in Education

By Mark Anderson AI, CPD, EdTech No Comments

AI integration in education isn't easy. There’s no getting away from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s on our TVs and news cycles, it’s sending us phishing emails, targeting ads, it’s even driving some cars, let alone helping us choose our Netflix viewing. The truth is AI is making waves across multiple…

Jul 31 2024

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The EU AI Act and Ten Things It Means for UK Schools

By Mark Anderson AI, EdTech No Comments

As the European Union takes steps to regulate artificial intelligence with its AI Act, there’s a lot in here that UK schools should be mindful of. While we're no longer bound by EU regulations, the Act offers many valuable insights into the future of AI governance in education and there’s…

Jul 08 2024

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Artificial Intelligence: The Biggest Threat to Teacher Autonomy?

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, Cognitive Science, EdTech, Ethics, Pedagogy No Comments

Over the last decade and a half, we've seen significant shifts in curriculum development, particularly influenced by figures such as Nick Gibb and Michael Gove. Their reforms placed considerable emphasis on prescribed curricula, which, as many have noted, has significantly diminished teacher autonomy. Now, with artificial intelligence (AI) are we…